Question follow-through · 64799
Personal Independence Payment and Universal Credit: Northern Ireland
To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, whether (a) Universal Credit and (b) PIP awards in Northern Ireland will remain indexed to inflation until 2029-30 under proposed welfare reforms.
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- Answering body
- Department for Work and Pensions
- Tabled
- 3 Jul 2025
- Target answer date
- 7 Jul 2025
- Answer
- 11 Jul 2025 · 8 calendar days after tabling
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Recorded timeline
3 Jul 2025
Question tabled
To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, whether (a) Universal Credit and (b) PIP awards in Northern Ireland will remain indexed to inflation until 2029-30 under proposed welfare reforms.
7 Jul 2025
Target answer date
Date supplied by the official written-questions record.
11 Jul 2025
Answer published
Social security is a transferred matter in NI, but there is a long-standing principle of parity between the social security systems of the Northern Ireland Executive and that of the UK Government. In line with this principle, the Universal Credit Bill mak...
Official data retrieved 28 Sept 2026.
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